Example sentences of "both [vb base] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Film evidence can be extremely useful in investigating how the media both influence and reflect contemporary events and opinion . |
| 2 | Jokes thus both acknowledge and circumvent conventional restrictions ; the breaking of conventional restraint increases the pleasure of the sexual joke . |
| 3 | Social and spatial relations both constrain and enable these interactions and understandings . |
| 4 | Here we report results on two infants in whom one cerebral hemisphere , including both striate and extra-striate visual cortex , needed surgical removal in their first year . |
| 5 | Both RYR and IP 3 R display variations in sensitivity . |
| 6 | Also both control and histamine treated tumours had a similar proportion of malignant cells , stroma , and vascularisation , suggesting direct proliferative effects on the xenograft may have been responsible for the increased size . |
| 7 | He gave both Ranulf and Maltote careful instructions ; he was going to inspect the burnt-out novice house . |
| 8 | Horatian metres both dictate and accommodate Horatian syntax ; in every poem there are striking effects of word order which , on the one hand , may be said to have been contrived , or willed by the poet , but on the other can be seen as arising from metrical necessity . |
| 9 | Theories of gender and education have , to some extent , mirrored those on class and education : there are those who believe that inequality is caused by the differential socialization of girls and boys ( in a sense , that girls are ‘ culturally deprived ’ ) and that this can be overcome through removing prejudice ; there are also those ( e.g. Spender 1982 ; Mahony 1985 ) who believe that schools both reflect and reproduce patriarchal relations . |
| 10 | They should also recognise that writing is often more formal and more impersonal than speech : lexical and grammatical features of language both reflect and create these contrasts . |